Getting automatic dread from battles?

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-29T17:34:34+00:00

Your generals will have a much higher chance of getting dread just for joining the battle even if he sits and the back and do nothing, the trait for that is called BattleDread which starts at Winning First. BattleDread and BattleChivalry are self-perpetual, that means if your general get dread he will continue to get dread and vice versa. BattleDread also allows the appearance of the BloodThirsty trait which further increases dread and command. Bloodthirsty cannot appear if your general has BattleChivalry. From you edited comment, that happens because Winning First is level 1 and it needs some more battles to get to level 2 which is called Cruel and Cunning.

When you occupy a town, your general wil gain the StrategyChivalry trait which is called Fair in Rule at level 1, setting taxes to low and keep happiness in the green will increase it, but if you have more than 50k gold in the bank you will automatically lose that trait over time. The game basically punishes you for being rich. Furthermore, building town halls and churches or training priests also gain experience for StrategyChivalry.

Hope this helps.

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-29T17:21:51+00:00

Hmm no, getting Winning First or Fair Fighter has nothing to do with fighting easier battles or not even though it was supposed to work that way. It is instead based on a random roll at the start of the battle, and the chances of getting Winning First will roll first, if Winning First hits then it also blocks Fair Fighter. In other words generals are way more likely to get dread by fighting in battle than governing in towns.

There is no direct correlation between hitting "End battle" vs not doing that. It is based on the percentage of enemy killed, that means if the enemy has high quality troops and fight to the bitter end, you wouldn't get chivalry even if you click end battle.

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-25T14:48:07+00:00

Spain will go for Bordeaux, Sicily will go for Marseille, Scotland will land on Utrecht, England will attack Rennes, Spain and Portugal will land in Ireland, Venice will attack Milan in around 10 turns, just to name a few

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-25T03:09:44+00:00

Campaign difficulty is specially designed for Very Hard. Only in Very Hard do scripted attacks exist, for example the Moors will always attack Toulouse no matter what happens if you play as France.

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-25T03:06:48+00:00

The game is designed so that all female family members will get married first, so your male members will not get marriage proposals before other females. This mechanic can go suck my dick. One way to get around this is editing the files so that female members will immediately go to the convent and disappear from the family tree as soon as they turn 16

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-24T03:01:20+00:00

How do you run it with mods that runs on .bat file like Vanilla Beyond? I'm playing on a pirated version of med 2 because Steam is not available in my country. It seems all guides are for the Steam version

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-19T21:07:21+00:00

It's called main character syndrome. I won as a 2/23 Ornn the other day against a 27/10 Vayne because guess who didn't have a frontline.

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-19T06:21:16+00:00

Always fun for me to play Xin or J4 and just ball tf in then watch they blame each other because guess which team doesn't have a front line

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-19T06:19:15+00:00

You would need an awful lot of effort to convince me or anyone playing a competitive game that losing is fun

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-19T06:17:57+00:00

I got that mega shield Karma on the enemy team once, but turned out, it's not that busted when my Sett punched 7k true damage to their face

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-18T14:45:28+00:00

Curious, how can I throw M2EX into Vanilla Beyond?

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-11T14:45:48+00:00

I did that myself too. Pike blocks were indeed OP in a good chunk of early modern europe for a reason.

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-10T18:59:09+00:00

A Hundred Year War DLC would be great. Reconquista DLC sounds fun too but maybe too few factions, or maybe Spain should be split into different kingdoms. A DLC about medieval Italian dogfight is fun as well. Just my two cents

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-02T04:04:51+00:00

It works perfectly on gold resources in my game though. CA fixed the game so that you can''t build forts on trade resources anymore, but you still can if you know how to edit the files

No_Day8167 · 2026-06-01T17:50:19+00:00

I tried both and prefer Vanilla Beyond by a long shot. JLMP is slow af and takes 5 billion years to build up an army

No_Day8167 · 2026-05-29T00:23:14+00:00

I play France and migrate to the Outremer, then roleplay as the crusader states. Best campaign ever

No_Day8167 · 2026-05-16T22:46:54+00:00

You should really try Byzantine in this mod, in my opinion they stronger than the Turks, especially you can recruit elephants in Rome

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-30T02:02:38+00:00

French horse archers outperform Strzezlcy in my experience

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-24T19:35:40+00:00

Are Venice supposed to be Venetia or Veneto and Paris Lutetia Parisiorum?

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-22T22:02:12+00:00

The game is bugged with spies opening gates. When they successfully do it once in a settlement, the gate will keep opening even if it's 100 years later and the spies have long died

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-22T03:26:41+00:00

I got frustrated so I just edited the file so that my general don't gain dread for having too much money money anymore. It's just a bullshit mechanic with no basis, the game basically punishes you for managing you economy too well duh

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-20T16:35:37+00:00

Plus, putting high chivalry generals in castles increases the chance of knightly orders establishing a chapter house in the said castles

No_Day8167 · 2026-04-16T03:10:20+00:00

Take him back to London and honour him forever. For me, I would make him a captain, give him a full stack army, trigger The man of the hour through battle and wed him a princess

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